glynh

StrangeDays said:

doggone said:

sjworld said:

harry wild said:

Air Tag will be great in my cars when I have to park at the airports giant size parking lots and in city parking ramps.  If Air Tags are around $200 each, will buy 5 of them.  Save me alot of frustration.

Apple Maps has an excellent feature called “Show Parked Location”. You should definitely use it, old man, rather than being what’s wrong with consumers nowadays and be willing to spend $200 on some dumbass tracking tags.

This rarely has worked for me.  So I just looked at the instructions that Apple provide (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207227).  My phone is set up properly and I do have bluetooth connectivity with the car.
The critical factor is that you have to search Maps using the term "Parked Car".  This does not come up automatically when you open up maps.  There are favorites lie home and work set up (probably in contacts) but no automatic listing for Parked Car.  Also you cannot add that as a favorite.  

Wouldn't it make sense to the Parked Car result automatically pop up on the splash screen for the Map app? Seems a no-brainer to me and would help people use this very useful feature without any issue.

It does already show up automatically at the top of suggested locations. You don’t need to search for it, that would be absurd. 

Not in my Apple Maps it doesn’t. Couldn’t see it anywhere.

Type ‘Parked car’ into search and boom...there it is.

Otherwise it’s invisible to me...never even knew it existed.

avon b7 said:

You do realise that a UK teleco has just signed a £2 billion contract with Huawei and most UK players are proceeding with Huawei 5G trials.

Germany has gone on record as saying no evidence has been provided. The Czechs have overruled the ban.

This is from the horse's mouth on what is happening and why:

https://www.afr.com/business/telecommunications/huaweis-australia-chair-john-lord-speaks-out-my-loyalty-is-not-shaken-20181219

Not this one at least it would appear;

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/05/bt-removing-huawei-equipment-from-parts-of-4g-network

StrangeDays said:

glynh said:

macxpress said:

simply258 said:

AppleInsider said:

In a bid to beat Google

Let's be honest, that will never happen in the Maps arena.

What exactly makes Google Maps so special these days? 

It just works?

But so does Maps. I haven’t had any reason to use google maps in years. Years. 

And vice-versa for me. Every time I go back to Apple Maps I have issues with something.

Using Siri to find Halfords in Stratford led me down a road where I could see it across someone’s back garden and down a steep embankment.

Trying to find a McDonald’s in Coventry led me to a housing estate. Not the first time it has done this.

Given up using Apple Maps in Europe as Google Maps is so much more precise, informative and can actually find the places I am looking for.

Interested to know where it works for you?

"Siri has grown by leaps and bounds after being acquired by Apple and launching in beta on the iPhone 4S."

I stopped reading after this...:)

With all the fuss about Apple throttling the CPU and slowing down iPhones, performance does not even register on the Top 5 iOS Performance Issues but comes in at Number 1 on the Top 5 Android Performance Issues chart at a whopping 27% which is head and shoulders above the next closest issue, camera at 5%.

Makes you wonder what all the fuss is about...